Me too! I have been doing it regularly. I’m moving between applications and my brain just fails to switch to “Teams” mode and remember that I’ve got to hit SHIFT+ENTER to get a new line. This leaves me frustrated with posting partial messages (or messages I wish hadn’t been sent as I wasn’t finished).
Solution: Hit the Format button (the first button with an icon of ‘A’)
This hack may be able to help you. It does require some forethought, but I’ve found my brain is having a much better time remembering this than SHIFT+ENTER.
Simply don’t use the standard inline reply box if your message is going to be anything longer than a few words.
By default, the first message extension (just under the inline input area) provides a richer editing experience.
In this editing experience pressing ENTER gives you a new line as you would expect – how novel!
Not only that you will find you can make your messages look a lot better with some of the options available here.
Learn more about creating and formatting chat messages
Nice! Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you!!
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Great !!!!
I too was annoyed with the SHIFT+ENTER behavior
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god you saved my life…i work for IT and im supposed to have all this knowledge but this a a habit, no wonder why everyone thinks i cant write.
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🤣 the pressure of IT. I feel it often – we can’t know everything right?
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Thank you!
Is there a shortcut to get to “Format”?
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Good idea – I went digging and there is one! SHIFT+CTRL+X
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Absolutely brilliant!!!
Thank you very much!
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You’re welcome, I’ll have to remember that key combo too. It will come in handy.
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Beautiful! Much obliged
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Thank Youuuuuu !!!!!!!!
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Can this be set as the default?
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That would be great, but sadly I haven’t found a way.
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I was having the same frustration and just found this post. Thank you
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Thanks!! Very helpful tip.
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Excellent, thank you so much, I totally agree what is the point of the send arrow (paper plane) if the enter key does this. Microsoft sort yourselves out!
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Just started using Teams and became instantly annoyed when I hit return and it sent my opening salutation. This option is marvelous, really appreciate the feedback. Thank you.
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Thanks, your post was very helpful! I thought I would add that if you DO post a half-finished message, that you can easily edit it rather than leaving a series of messages. Just click the dots for more options at the top of the message and choose ‘edit’.
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Fantastic! Thank you
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Thanks for sharing this – it helped. I was hitting alt-enter and getting frustrated – learned both the shift enter and the editor from your post – thanks a ton!
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OMG You’ve just saved my life by a simple trick! Everybody in my company keeps complaining about this, now I can save all of them, thanks to you haha.
Thank you, Sir!!
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I’m very used to hitting Alt-Enter in Excel to get a new line within a cell for text, so it is very annoying that Teams has Shift-Enter for the same behavior.
This is a great tip, thank you.
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I’m very used to hitting Alt-Enter in Excel to get a new line within a cell for text, so it is very annoying that Teams has Shift-Enter for the same behavior.
This is a great tip, thank you.
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Whattt? How have i never known this Excel tip. I’ve spent too much time I’ll never get back messing with the space bar!
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Brilliant! I’ll now have better white space in my messages.
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MS should use the same solution in all of its programs for the same functions. This is so annoying and a common problem with MS.
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A Workaround isn’t a solution!
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Also saves you from only entering half a person’s name as a Post – great tip!
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Thanks Leanne 🙂
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I just saw this. Very helpful. thanks
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Cameron. Excellent. Inadvertent sending of messages in Teams and Messenger has bugged me for ages, so GREAT to see TWO solutions. Richard
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Thanks Richard 🙂
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